And let's be real—when things go the opposite direction, it's not just about external challenges; it's also about the mistakes we make, the flaws in our own hearts and our human sinful nature. This can make the journey of life and our mission to serve God in the world pretty tiring. But instead of getting hung up on aiming for success, our focus should be on staying true and faithful to God through obedience. What keeps us going is the big-picture idea that ultimately, it's God Himself who's going to establish a world ruled by His kingdom of love, righteousness, peace, fulfilment and satisfaction.
Joerg Rieger has written, as the title suggests, a theological view on globalisation. Many titles may have appeared promising a critical or constructive encounter between globalisation, theology or ethics. However, few have delivered on the promise. But this book, although extremely short, targetted its primary thesis through the lens of Christian theology - a moral critique on the dominant forms of globalisation from the topdown to providing an alternative form of globalisation - the bottom up in opposition to the former. The author began in highlighting that theology and globalisation are “organically intertwined,” and thus criticises the extreme reductionists view that globalisation is merely and purely economic or technological, and vice versa, that globalisation is exclusively theological. The author further presents the historical trajectory of Christianity in globalisation analysing the impact of topdown form of leadership. From the Roman Empire, to Spanish Conquistador and to G...
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